Ezequiel Carrera

By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange NEW YORK — Brandon McCarthy will be the first to admit that in the past when situations got tough, he might have thrown a hittable pitch in an attempt to back away. With the New York Yankees, McCarthy is not shying away from challenges. The latest one occurred Monday night. The highlight of McCarthy's tough, 5 2/3-inning outing was when he escaped a bases-loaded jam in the top of the second inning, helping New York open a four-game series with a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers. "It's something that I've never been good at in my career, the not-backing-down thing, and today was a better example of that where it's not...

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